Halifax city council's making your life more expensive, a 3rd intermission update artwork
The Grand Parade

Halifax city council's making your life more expensive, a 3rd intermission update

  • S3E47
  • 25:03
  • March 25th 2025

Halifax council’s budget meeting on monday March 24th was a stinker, quite literally, and also because council almost voted to make Halifax’s poorest people just a little hungrier because of how Canadian governments divvied up their power and responsibilities. But the good news is that your odds of dying in a fire are going to decrease slightly in the next few years, probably. Still, the bad news is that your taxes in five years are going to be astronomically expensive. You’re not going to get better programs and services for those crazy high taxes because that money will have to go to debt because this council just can’t stop themselves from making terrible fiscal decisions.

The Grand Parade

The Coast's city hall podcast, hosted by reporter Matt Stickland. An irreverent look at city hall, the policies they put forward and the people who decide on them for us.

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